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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

I was able to find a before photo, here I am (with a good friend of mine) painstakingly painting perfect blue and tan stripes down the focal wall of our entryway...

There wasn't really anything wrong with it, but as all you decorators-at-heart know,

our homes are almost always evolving and changing. That's part of the fun, right?

So here it is now...

*sigh*

A nice fresh clean look.

And can I just say, I am in LOVE with this grey paint color.

It's Behr, my favorite brand of paint, and it's called Dolphin Fin.

What do you think? Do you love the new grey as much as I do?

I think it gives it a fresh yet farmhousey appeal.

We are currently preparing our almost 5yr old for kindergarten this fall :(

so you may notice our vintage inspired alphabet flash cards hanging by the school desk.

I thought they were cute!

The banner is left over from a baby shower hosted here,

and I just can't make myself take it down...it makes me happy!

So you couldn't see it in the before photo, but our front door used to

be a terrible brown color. Very sad. I was gonna hold out for black, but in

the interest of saving time and money I used a charcoal grey we had sitting the the garage.

I am so glad I did! I love how it turned out, and I love the way it looks against our

much lighter Dolphin Fin grey.

The wreath was another baby shower leftover, but I thinks it looks good against the grey so we will be keeping it up for the spring. There was NO yellow in my house until this shower, and I had no idea how much I enjoyed the color!

I think my husband has officially hidden my chalkboard paint....

I may have a small obsession with it, just maybe.

What I haven't posted yet, is all the other many places chalkboard paint shows up

in our home. :/

With that said, I really am enjoying this chalkboard.

The simple design. The stark grey against the lighter grey.

The opportunity for change and creativity. The chance to send off my family members

with sweet messages. (I realize that my fancy L kind of makes it look like I spelled "clove")

.... I still like it.

You may have noticed the new blog name "SimpleVintageStyle" and new blog look...

I have been working hard in our home and am really looking forward to sharing much more with you in the near future. What about you? What have you been working on?

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

We were using this built-in in our dinning room to store random dishes, pitchers, and etc.

Being that it was in the center of our home and we were already

using the cubby to store our keys and wallets I thought this might be

the best spot for our command center.

I pulled everything out of it, got to work cleaning it, then painting. I used the same white paint I have chosen for all the trim work in our house, and then used a light grey for the cubby and interior shelves.

I painted the glass windows in the upper cabinet doors with four coats of chalk paint, inside and out.

Here is a closer picture of our new and improved

cabinet doors. I love that we can now inject a little personality

by writing messages or Bible verses to display.

We are currently using the inside left cabinet door to write our

grocery list or messages to each other. Also, on the left cabinet door is a

Friday, January 4, 2013

After an extended leave, I am soo glad to be back in the blogging world!!

It's been a long time, and I have much to share. First to share is my updated hallway, after much inspiration (thanks to Pinterest) I decided our hallway would be a great opportunity to add some character to our home. So I hit up our local home improvement store for a truck load of 1x4's, and with the help of my Handsome Man we promptly got to work on our wainscoting...

First, I had to measure out how high up the wall we were gonna go, then measure how far apart we wanted each board. THEN measure how far down from the top boards I wanted the second row of horizontal boards to be. It was a long and boring process a lot of fun. ;)

Then we got started measuring and cutting the boards, followed by nailing them to the walls. We used wood glue and a few screws to ensure they stay up there! Once all the boards were up, I got busy with the joint compound. (By the way, I HAVE pictures of this whole process....I just couldn't find them to save my life.) I used the joint compound where ALL the boards meet, waited...sanded....then plastered on more compound....waited for it to dry....sanded.

It was also a lot of fun!

Meanwhile, I used a paint-able all purpose caulk and caulked where the boards met the wall, so that when we painted we would have a nice smooth surface. Once the compound and caulking were completely dry I got starting with the paint. I am a huge fan of Behr paint, I paint in our home A LOT (my hubby can attest to that!) and have always been impressed with their paint.

So there it is!!

A beautiful update to our hallway and we LOVE it!!

I hope you enjoyed.

I am so glad to be back and looking forward to catching up with you all!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

I have much to share with you all and can't wait to do so....unfortunately our camera broke!!

Arrrrg!! Such a frustrating thing, and such bad timing!

No worries, I will look for a camera to borrow temporarily until we can look into purchasing a new one.

I hate having nothing new to post, but I didn't want you to think I went to London and fell into the Thymes River!! To hold you over until I get a working camera (borrowed or new), here are a few pics from Pinterest.